Have any of the gubernatorial candidates said much about transportation?

johnaustingreenfield

Haven’t heard anything from Pritzker or Biss, although it would be great if ChiHackNight-ers ask Biss some transportation questions at tonight’s event. Pawar has voiced support for the Ashland BRT proposal, helped lead the campaign to restore bus service on Lincoln and 31st, and endorsed and funded the Lawrence road diet and Berteau Greenway in his ward. Back when Kennedy was president of the Merchandise Mart, he supported bike initiatives, such as getting more bike racks installed nearby and, likely, the adjacent Kinzie protected bike lane.

Jeremy

Pawar has also been supportive of TOD near the Montrose and Paulina brown line stations in his ward.

A lot of the candidates have reducing green house gas emissions as part of their platform. It seems like any to reduce ghg, reducing vehicle miles traveled should be a step in reaching that goal.

johnaustingreenfield

Thanks, I’ve reached out to the park district about this.

Kevin M

Oh, we don’t need to reduce vehicle miles to reduce GHG. Driver-less electric cars are just around the corner–look out!

BlueFairlane

Bullock Flick “While You Were Sleeping” Was Shot at Randolph-Wabash Station (Sun-Times)

I’m often impressed with Streetsblog’s timely coverage, but you guys are a little behind on this.

johnaustingreenfield

I don’t follow you. It’s a timely article because that station is slated for demolition this month.

BlueFairlane

This is meant to be a joke. The way the headline is written suggests that the newsworthy item is that the movie was filmed in a particular location, even though this took place in 1995. That’s obviously not the newsworthy item, of course. I just thought it was funny.

Carter O’Brien

To be fair, electric vehicles are clearly the wave of the future, as are solar panels and better battery systems to charge them. The driver-less part freaks me out more than a bit, but otoh, how much worse could they be than your average distracted driver?

rwy

I fear that features like lane departure warnings and blind spot monitors could encourage distracted driving. However the data seems to be that they make things safer.

On the other hand, I am very confident that driverless cars will make things safer on the road for everyone.

BlueFairlane

I am fairly confident that robot cars will make things safer for everyone in, like, 2050. I think we’re a lot farther from that than the boosters like to say.